Antonyms of noun death

2 of 8 senses of death

Sense 1
death, decease, expiry -- (the event of dying or departure from life; "her death came as a terrible shock"; "upon your decease the capital will pass to your grandchildren")
       Antonym of birth (Sense 2)
      => birth, nativity, nascency, nascence -- (the event of being born; "they celebrated the birth of their first child")

Sense 4
death, dying, demise -- (the time when something ends; "it was the death of all his plans"; "a dying of old hopes")
       Antonym of birth (Sense 1)
      => birth -- (the time when something begins (especially life); "they divorced after the birth of the child"; "his election signaled the birth of a new age")

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun death

8 senses of death

Sense 1
death, decease, expiry -- (the event of dying or departure from life; "her death came as a terrible shock"; "upon your decease the capital will pass to your grandchildren")
       => change, alteration, modification -- (an event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another; "the change was intended to increase sales"; "this storm is certainly a change for the worse"; "the neighborhood had undergone few modifications since his last visit years ago")

Sense 2
death -- (the permanent end of all life functions in an organism or part of an organism; "the animal died a painful death")
       => organic phenomenon -- ((biology) a natural phenomenon involving living plants and animals)

Sense 3
death -- (the absence of life or state of being dead; "he seemed more content in death than he had ever been in life")
       => state -- (the way something is with respect to its main attributes; "the current state of knowledge"; "his state of health"; "in a weak financial state")

Sense 4
death, dying, demise -- (the time when something ends; "it was the death of all his plans"; "a dying of old hopes")
       => end, ending -- (the point in time at which something ends; "the end of the year"; "the ending of warranty period")

Sense 5
death, last -- (the time at which life ends; continuing until dead; "she stayed until his death"; "a struggle to the last")
       => end, ending -- (the point in time at which something ends; "the end of the year"; "the ending of warranty period")

Sense 6
Death -- (the personification of death; "Death walked the streets of the plague-bound city")
       INSTANCE OF=> imaginary being, imaginary creature -- (a creature of the imagination; a person that exists only in legends or myths or fiction)

Sense 7
end, destruction, death -- (a final state; "he came to a bad end"; "the so-called glorious experiment came to an inglorious end")
       => state -- (the way something is with respect to its main attributes; "the current state of knowledge"; "his state of health"; "in a weak financial state")

Sense 8
death -- (the act of killing; "he had two deaths on his conscience")
       => killing, kill, putting to death -- (the act of terminating a life)